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DAM, NY, 27/07/2006

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BURUNDI - SOCIETY / ETHNISME:    ETHNIC SEPARATISTS IN OUR MEDIA PUBLIC AND WITH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, OF INDUSTRY, AGRICULTURE, AND THE CRAFT INDUSTRY IN BURUNDI.

AGNEWS - DAM- NY, 27/07/2006

Three days ago, a journalist of the RTNB to publish an article “Commemoration of the 10th birthday of the ethnic massacres of BUGENDANA in province of GITEGA” asking that the government find “a means of making safe the survivors”… The CNC and the Ministry for the Communication should be more vigilent with these kinds of free provocations especially when they are used by journalists in a public radio. The time when the country was with the hand of the ethnic separatists is completed.

The website of the Chamber of Commerce, industry, the agriculture and the craft industry of Burundi, which has the role to render service to all the good hearts wanting to undertake in our country, often passes to be a gate of the PA AMASEKANYA (1,2,3) or AC GENOCIDE (1,2), which are   HIMA clanic hardline organizations. That is not the place. People with the separatist ideas ethnists should not compromise the country which seeks to instigate its economy.

BURUNDI - SOCIETE / ETHNISME :    DES SEPARATISTES ETHNIQUES DANS NOS MEDIA PUBLIQUES ET A LA CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE,DE L'INDUSTRIE, DE L'AGRICULTURE, ET DE L'ARTISANAT AU BURUNDI.

AGNEWS - DAM - NY, 27/07/2006

Il y a trois jours, un journaliste de la RTNB à publier un article "Commémoration du 10 ème anniversaire des massacres ethniques de BUGENDANA en province de GITEGA" demandant que le gouvernement trouve "un moyen de sécuriser les survivants" ...   Le CNC et le Ministère de la Communication devraient être plus vigilent à ces genres de provocations gratuites surtout lorsqu'ils sont instrumentalisé par des journalistes dans une radio publique. L'époque où le pays était au main des séparatistes ethniques est révolue.

Le site de la Chambre de Commerce, de l'industrie, de l'agriculture et de l'artisanat du Burundi, qui a pour vocation de rendre service à toutes les bonnes âmes voulant entreprendre dans notre pays, souvent passe pour être un portail du PA AMASEKANYA (1,2,3) ou AC GENOCIDE (1,2),qui sont des organisations extrémistes du clan HIMA du BURUNDI. Cela n'est pas le lieu. Les gens aux idées séparatistes ethnistes ne doivent pas compromettre le pays qui cherche à redynamiser son économie.

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Uganda: Rwanda MPs Demand Report On Dissident
New Vision (Kampala)   July 26, 2006   Alfred Wasike And Agencies   Kampala

RWANDA MPs have urged the Ugandan government to release a report detailing how the dissident Forces democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) leader, Ignace Murwanashyaka, got the country's travel documents.

Murwanashyaka, whose FDLR is associated with the 1994 Rwanda genocide, was in April arrested in Germany while travelling on a Ugandan passport.

Internal affairs minister Dr. ruhakana Rugunda yesterday denied that Uganda was "sitting on the report".

"The report is virtually ready. The Uganda government has requested for some information on the suspects from the Rwanda government," Rugunda said.

"We have done so through our Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We are awaiting the feedback from the government of Rwanda before finalising and releasing the report. No one is sitting on the report. We are very transparent. The ball has bounced somewhere," Rugunda said.

Rwanda's New Times on Tuesday reported that the demand was made as foreign affairs minister Dr. Charles Murigande appeared before the MPs to explain Rwanda's relations with her neighbours.

"We want the report on Murwanashyaka to be made public. The Uganda government said it would investigate the matter but we don't hear anything of it now. Were the papers confiscated or is he still using the Ugandan passport with ease?" MP Francis Kaboneka charged.

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Ugandan Bishop elected Caritas Africa President
July 27, 2006,   By Gerald Businge   Uganda Bureau,AND

Kampala (AND) The Bishop of Luweero diocese Rt. Rev. Dr. Cyprian Lwanga has been elected president of Caritas Africa, an international empowerment organization for the Catholic Church.

Bishop Lwanga elected Caritas Africa President The Bishop of Luweero diocese Rt. Rev. Dr. Cyprian Lwanga has been elected president of Caritas Africa, an international empowerment organization for the Catholic Church.

Addressing reporters at the Uganda Catholic secretariat in Kampala on Wednesday, the Rev. Dr. Lwanga says he was elected during a pan African conference of Caritas Africa that sits every four years. Rev. Lwanga says the objective of Caritas is to send God’s love to people through helping them fight poverty and developing each other.

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DRC militias lay down arms as election nears
July 27 2006   By Stuart Price - Sapa-AFP

Bunia - A young woman clutching a handbag bulging with bullets waited to be waved through a United Nations disarmament point in Bunia, a volatile township in Democratic Republic of Congo's northeast Ituri region.

Behind her, an unruly mob gathered, smoking and heckling Moroccan peacekeepers manning the entrance.

"I want to restart my life and live it as a normal civilian, that is why I am disarming," said Geri Dou, a former fighter who said she joined the rebel Nationalist Integrationist Front (FNI) after her family was killed in the country's five-year war.

As she and others, many producing AK-47 assault rifles and rounds of ammunition, were waved through one at a time, the weapons and ammunition that piled up on the ground pointed to how casual - and prolific - the gun culture has become in Ituri.

The Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programme has seen a flood of weapons traded in for financial rewards, ahead of the country's first democratic elections in more than 40 years on Sunday.

The vote is seen as a key test for peace and stability in the entire Great Lakes region, and the financial rewards of the disarmament program offer a handsome prospect to a region racked by poverty.

Regular broadcasts on local Radio Okapi, some by former militia commanders appealing to recalcitrant fighters still in the bush, have been accompanied by massive UN helicopter airdrops of leaflets to publicise the scheme.

During a first round in 2005, about 15 000 militiamen from different armed groups, mainly backed by Uganda during the war, joined the program.

Since the program resumed in June, another 3 900 militiamen surrendered more than 2 100 weapons.

DRC is still struggling to emerge from two devastating conflicts that, from 1998 to 2003, involved six outside countries and facilitated the rise of several militia groups.

A vicious inter-ethnic battle, in the aftermath of what was dubbed "Africa's World War," between the Hema and Lendu tribes saw Ituri's resource-rich plains flooded with weapons.

"My particular worry is that in Bunia, owning a weapon is becoming an acceptable part of society," said DDR programme's chief technical adviser Clive Jachnik.

"There are many villages here in Ituri where people are quite happy to take the gun from under their bed and join the militia if they were called upon to protect their societies," he said.

Though many former militiamen have embraced the political process ahead of the historic July 30 vote, several militia groups opposed to the elections have regrouped under an organisation known as the Movement for the Revolution of Congo (MRC).

They are said to number 2 500 to 3 000 fighters.

Their sporadic clashes with the regular Congolese army, which is trying to impose authority in the zone, has displaced thousands of people.

Former combatants who do hand over their arms spend three days in a demobilisation camp in Bunia where they are registered and briefed about the DDR process.

They are also given basics such as a blanket, sleeping mat, toothbrush, sandals, bucket for washing and a water container.

During this time, they must decide whether to return to civilian life or join the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and carry on as "soldiers."

Those who choose the former are given 110 dollars (about R800) on leaving, then 25 dollars (about R400) a month for 12 months.

After that, they can get a $400 (R2 800) bonus if they devise their own income-generating project, such as opening a shop.

The program is not without critics, who say while quelling the flames the disarmament program is not putting out the fire.

Bunia District Commissioner Petronille Vaweka, who has fought hard for disarmament, criticised what she called short-sighted planning that did not involve local resources.

The 2005 "DDR programme failed because these projects were organised and elaborated in air-conditioned offices without the inclusion of local people," she said.

"They did not know which projects were to be in the interest of the ex-combatants and they were implemented without any support from the local communities."

In an area where an AK-47 can be bought for as little as $30 (about R210), others say offering a reward for its surrender is actually encouraging weapons' proliferation.

"By doing what we do in DDR, are we in fact broadening requirements for weapons in the area?" asked Jachnik, who charged that "planning in DDR is notoriously poor."

General Mbuayama Nsiona, the army's overall commander in Ituri district, confirmed that continued smuggling of arms, such as the AK-47, into the region remains a serious issue and perpetuates the problem.

"The difficulty is policing people along the border areas and checking them," he said.

"The authorities do not have the capacity to inspect every piece of luggage, every vehicle, every bag of cassava, beans or rice, everything that is entering from outside."

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